Post By Martin 4 Comments
April 2007 30

ClusterSeven makes spreadsheet applications easier

http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=16838 and http://www.clusterseven.com/ or http://www.clusterseven.com/?TabId=115

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) has implemented software from ClusterSeven to manage and control speadsheet proliferation at its London office.

The bank has initially deployed the technology for structured trade pricing in the product control department with a license to manage up to 200MB of operational spreadsheets.

How cool is this? ClusterSeven look like a very interesting solutions provider, by taking the spreadsheet to a more managed solution not only helps with my compliance as well as even improve performance, it makes IT more able to support the applications which has to be a good thing.  Will need to read up on their solutions, but do check out the article and have a look over the ClusterSeven site, looks interesting.

I just remember all those times we’d get called the spreadsheet’s locked, user can’t access it and traders are getting upset, anything ClusterSeven, Microsoft or others can do to facilitate service improvement would have been welcome, the marginal cost of doing so against the audit points closed, and the service improvement makes it worth while from an IT perspective let alone a user one.




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4 Comments

  1. Sarah says:
    May 2, 2007 at 16:17

    It’s also worth taking a look at Lyquidity (http://www.lyquidity.com). ComplyXL helps control, track changes and manage spreadsheet use – all in a non-invasive way. There are presentations available to view to see how the product works – http://www.lyquidity.com/presentations as well as full pricing being posted on the website. This solution is aimed at all sizes of companies, and can be used either as a desktop solution or as an enterprise solution (Oracle, SQL etc).

    Benefits include: much faster auditing of spreadsheet information, reduced costs, compliance, easy comparison between different spreadsheets, as well as different versions of the same spreadsheet.

    Hope you like the site.

  2. martin says:
    May 2, 2007 at 19:47

    Excellent Sarah, off to check it out now, will check out the presentations, its always good to know what options there are out there.

  3. Ralph says:
    May 3, 2007 at 14:59

    Martin – your insight into ‘systemising’ spreadsheets is quite correct. At the end of the day businesses want to know that their operational spreadsheets are good to go. Once you reach this position it becomes possible to have a unified data framework between your validated spreadsheets and the rest of your systems. That’s why here at ClusterSeven we believe that seeing spreadsheet changes is but a small part of the overall objective and the broader platform we have built. There’s lot’s more fun to be had here breaking down the walls between business and their spreadsheets and IT and their systems…..

  4. martin says:
    May 13, 2009 at 10:30

    Excellent Sarah, off to check it out now, will check out the presentations, its always good to know what options there are out there.

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